The usual way to do this is to open a file on /tmp, unlink it, scribble the
bits into the file, and pass the still-open file descriptor to the child
process and pass just a '-fd 5' or whatever to tell the child which descriptor
to read from....
I think you all are missing the forest for the trees here. The only
reason send(1) is passing down the bearer token on a command line argument
is because post(8) doesn't read the profile. Yes, we could improve the
inter-process communication, but it would be simpler and more flexible
to pass down the needed profile entries via command line switches (send
already does this for at least one thing).
--Ken
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